[ABE-L] Fw: Call for Savage Award and Mitchell Prize

[Alexandra M. Schmidt]

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Subject: Call for Savage Award and Mitchell Prize

The Prize Committee of ISBA is pleased to call for submissions for the 2015  
Savage Awards and Mitchell Prize. The deadline for submissions, which can be  
made online, is May 31, 2015.

The Mitchell Prize is given in recognition of an outstanding paper that  
describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem.  
For details on the Mitchell Prize, including names of past winners,  
eligibility details, and the on-line application procedure, please visit  
http://www.bayesian.org/awards/MitchellPrize.html The prize includes a check  
for $1000 and a plaque; the winner(s) will be announced at the 13th ISBA  
World Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, June 13-17, 2016.

The Savage Award, named in honor of Leonard J. "Jimmie" Savage, is bestowed  
each year to two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics  
and statistics, one each in Theory & Methods and Applied Methodology. For  
details on the Savage Award, including names of past winners, eligibility  
details, and the on-line application procedure, please visit  
http://www.bayesian.org/awards/Savage.html Up to two awards of $750 will be  
awarded. Finalists will be notified in December 2015 and invited to present  
their dissertation research at a special contributed session at the 13th ISBA  
World Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, June 13-17, 2016.
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Alexandra Mello Schmidt
Professor in Statistics
Departamento de Metodos Estatisticos
IM - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Tel: 0055 21 3938 7505 Ramal (Extension) 240
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www.dme.ufrj.br/~alex
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